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Debbie Millman|Audio
Design Matters From the Archive: Marilyn Minter
Sex, power, feminism—Marilyn Minter reflects on her rise, being banished from the art world, and her return and personal revolution.

Susan Morris|Essays
Utopias at the Architecture & Design Film Festival
The surprising trend in this year’s Architecture & Design Film Festival (ADFF) was Utopias.

Richard Baird|Books
Akogare 憧れ
Akogare, like many Japanese words, is loaded with nuance, and is difficult to translate directly to English.
George Aye|Essays
How We Shook Up the World’s Oldest Student Design Competition
A story in Design Observer started a life-changing collaboration between the RSA in London and a small design studio in Chicago, Illinois.

Jessica Helfand|Audio
S8E4: Ari Melenciano
Ari Melenciano is an artist, creative technologist, educator, and the founder of Afrotectopia, a social institution fostering interdisciplinary innovation.

Jessica Helfand|Audio
S8E3: Maxwell Anderson
Maxwell Anderson is the president of the Souls Grown Deep Foundation and Community Partnership.

Steven Heller|Essays
Reverse Migration: A Growing Pain
I am a rock ribbed, original New Yawka.

Steven Heller|Essays
Lou Rogers: Suffragist Cartoonist
Rogers was an outspoken reformer, using her voice and body as weapons in the battles for the vote and other fundamental human rights that were denied women.

Kathleen Meaney|Essays
From A to B (Africa to Bauhaus)
We can trace African innovation through modern art, but how about through modern design?

Jessica Helfand|Audio
Episode 130: Tackling History
With Bobby C. Martin, Jr.: rebranding Champions Design; football in Washington; demands for change at design schools; cooking during quarantine.

Steven Heller|Interviews
Jerseys To Remember
Since 2013, in the wake of the acquittal of Trayvon Martin’s killer, the New York based photographer and filmmaker Raafi Rivero has designed a series of basketball jerseys with the team name “Unarmed.”

Kathleen Meaney|Essays
A Breath of Fresh Architecture
What takes our breath away is both the thrill of life and life threatening.
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